Tasklog App

Well, that's not 100% true. You could pick the lifetime option before, but it was somehow hidden until you visited the actual purchase page.

The difference is that now it's presented directly on the home (landing) page together with the other two models - free & premium.

But Pete, It's a SaaS app! What about your MRR?

Yeah, yeah. I know. Two reasons:

• Personally I'm starting to hate the SaaS models and the inability to actually purchase something lately. Remember those days? I do.
• Despite being hidden before, the lifetime option is actually quite popular.

Let's see how that goes.

Pricing page: https://tasklog.app/#pricing

In total, people already created 261k time entries, 717k pomodoros and 59k tasks.

They also

• Finished 31k tasks
• Created 13k projects
• Added 7k clients
• Made 8k labels
• Still have to finish over 28k tasks

Trends

• Visits 🤔 same
• Sign ups 🔻 down
• Time entries created 🔻 down
• Pomodoros created 🔻 down
• Tasks created 🤔 same
• Tasks finished 💚 up
• Expenses created 🔻 down
• Revenue 💚 up

Tasklog.app is productivity software developed for the needs of typical modern freelancer. For web and mobile, freelancers and teams. Track time, manage tasks. Categorize by projects, clients & labels.

https://tasklog.app/open

More at https://tasklog.app/open

Tasklog.app is productivity software developed for the needs of typical modern freelancer. For web and mobile, freelancers and teams. Track time, manage tasks. Categorize by projects, clients & labels.

• Visits 🔻 down
• Sign ups 🤔 same
• Time entries created 🔻 down
• Pomodoros created 🔻 down
• Tasks created 🔻 down
• Tasks finished 🔻 down
• Expenses created 🔻 down
• Revenue 🔻 down

More at https://tasklog.app/open

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬.

• 📈 Revenue is about the 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 despite jun/jul being historically the weakest months, so I guess yaay.
• 🌑 Implemented and added #𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲 option
• 💌 Switched from Paypal to Paddle (finally!)
• 🦊 Created new 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝘅 𝗮𝗱𝗱-𝗼𝗻 for the app
• 🔨 Stitched together new 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 module
• 🤯 Created knowledge base for newcomers https://kb.tasklog.app
• 🧪 Experiment: Created public, shareable weekly overview. (but stripped of private info) https://tasklog.app/week?w=669855c4473596e2I3AyztrtaBFYiZJiSmL0NQ%3D%3D
• 🇪🇸 Fixed interesting bug causing the app switching into Spanish for everyone. All investigation points to Duolingo.
• ☕ You can now buy me a coffee at http://paypal.me/petrnagy/5USD/
• On a personal note: Finally reached 1000+ productivity points 🎉
• 🏝️ Made 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 page so customers understand they are using Indie project: https://tasklog.app/@/this-is-not-a-startup/
• 👋 Went /𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 https://tasklog.app/open

Starting today, anyone can visit https://tasklog.app/open and check how is it doing.

I put everything I find useful into the charts & stats:

• Visitors
• Sign ups + # of accounts
• Time entries monthly + sum
• Pomodoro sessions monthly + sum
• Tasks and to-dos created + sum
• Expenses created
• Income generated

🤩 Starting today, Tomatoid is called 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗔𝗽𝗽.

The focus and target audience have shifted dramatically over the past few years - and the original name became more and more disconnected from the webapp purpose.

Tasklog (formerly Tomatoid) started as personal project in late 2013 with no ambitions for monetization. Over time, I've added a bunch of new features and realized that it's actually a pretty solid solution for modern freelancers.

A lot has happened since introducing the Freemium model in mid 2017.

• Introduced the B2B version for teams & small companies
• Increased prices 💰
• Fine-tuned homepage with great visitor-to-trial ratio 🏞️
• iOS & Android apps 📱
• Chrome extension
• Implemented notifications system
• Added basic gamification (still testing) 🎮
• ProductHunt launch 🚀
• Created Facebook page
• Deleted "company blog" and replaced it with one Twitter thread

Challenges and tasks for near future:

• Improve the freemium-to-paid funnel step, which is the most leaky one
• Create first serious ppc campaign which will bring at least 1000 new potential paying customers and study the data in depth

A lot has changed in the last few years. I went from junior developer to senior, team leader and eventually freelancer.

But one thing was constant - I was still using my app daily and adding new features when I needed them.

I've made probably the biggest update of Tomatoid ever, which included:

• Ability to manage Projects, Clients and Labels
• Timesheets with advanced filtering and pdf/csv/excel export capabilities
• Detailed statistics
• Dashboard with a quick overview of your recent work
• Dark mode
• Toggl & Trello sync
• Some other stuff

I made all these new features available for $5/month subscription.
Without these new fancy things, the app was still free for everyone.

As I grew as a programmer, I was continuously developing and adding new features into my little app.

Suddenly, I realized it's actually 3 products in one:

• Pomodoro timer
• Stopwatch timer
• Task manager

All integrated into each other.

My estimate, which was indeed super accurate as I was still junior developer, was it will take me about one month of night coding to make my own Pomodoro timer.

Surprise surprise, it took me almost 1 year (!) to publicly release the first version.

Compared to other timers, it was superb. Compared to other web apps, it sucked so much.